It has been a while I know but getting back on track with a lot of the projects and Betty ‘The Slayer’ Mitchell is available to pre-order NOW with a 10-page preview when you do.

In issue #2 of Betty ‘The Slayer’ Mitchell, we catch up with Betty and new companion Ronald as they continue to eliminate monsters and beasts that are the scourge of our world. In the good old U.S of A Betty and Ron’s relationship continues to grow as they battle with the nightmare that is The Mothman!

The team I am working with on this book Ka De Oki on art and Tiko Capdevilla of colours are absolutely smashing it, we are onto the FINAL ISSUE art wise and issue #3 will be finished up (and hopefully out) before the year is up.

If you haven’t already purchased to read please do so as I think you will really like it, it is available from ComiXology at the following link.

Betty ‘The Slayer’ Mitchell #1

A spate of grisly murders leads to a desperate plea for help from renowned monster hunter Betty ‘The Slayer’ Mitchell. This one is personal though, when she finds out that the brutal killer is none other than Spring-Heeled Jack. It was he that attacked Betty previously and led her to the path that she is now on, hunting down monsters of legend, and she wants some closure!

Once all five issues are out digitally, the book with become a physical entity which will be available through all major book distributors.

Here is a look at the first pages to see if I can entice you into wanting more.

Want to say how unbelievably happy I am with the artist Ka De Oki who has been PHENOMENAL, he is actually pencilling page 4 of issue #4 at the time being and the colourist Tiko Capdevila who is putting out some crazy good pages (wait till you see the flashback scenes).

Since the end of 2017 I have been working on LOADS of stuff as I am determined to have a bunch of great stuff out come the end of 2018 and into 2019 and one of these projects I have high hopes for is a story called ‘Bulwark’.

This is an action adventure with touches of mysticism and magic, imagine if you take Monkey Magic, The Goonies, Guren Lagann and Stand by Me and wrap them in a ball, and turn them into one story, that is what is going on here.

Gabriel is a phenomenal artist who Is prevalent in many different art styles and I have really lucked out getting to work with him.

Here is some images of the character designs along with a work in progress of our main protagonist Yori.

Please give him a like on Facebook HERE and a follow at his Instagram HERE.

This is a story called ‘Looming Arrival’, it has been one I have been trying to get made for YEARS but for some reason of another hasn’t quite made it… UNTILL NOW.

Looming Arrival is based around the three main characters Mark, Mitzi and Shannon.

They are best friends and have worked together at the Goodwillie Freak show for years .

Mark is from a fictional small village in the Highlands and Islands called Hlayl where the three of them head to for a little break so Mark can collect some small keepsakes from his auntie’s his house.

When they get to the isle it starts to be attacked by some Scottish mythical creatures.

This will be drawn by the PHENOMINAL Carlos Angeli.

Will share more in the coming months.

Here is the three main characters and a little look at the Kelpies as well 🙂

Time to share another project I am working on which I am pretty excited about.

Next year is going to be a MEGA year for me personally comic book wise with Betty ‘The Slayer’ Mitchell, Ella, a NEW LOOK with NEW ARTIST and NEW STORY The Odd Lot, Manga Jitney entry as well as this Godmyth story and a little something new with regards to And They Come 🙂

This is a Sci-Fi, adventure, monster story that I have been going back to over the last 18 months or so, I never really had much to it other than a title, story idea and the characters but I wanted to do more.

Luckily I have managed to hook up with the VERY talented Gabriel Rodrigues on art and we have been going back and forth with our ideas.

Much in the vain of Prometheus, Alien, Contact, Avatar with the humans making contact with alien life form and discovering more about it but imagine the aliens were the ‘Anunnaki’ and the planet they landed on was ‘Nibiru’ and you have the base of our story.

We follow a small crew four who are amazing that while exploring a newly discovered planet in orbit around a red-dwarf star in the near future discover evidence of the Anunnaki and the truth that the Ancient Astronauts are real.

The crew is led by Captain Callum McKimmie.

His second in command is Doctor and Scientist Agnus Bett.

The pilot of the spaceship is Mahmoud Miller (called Ma for short).

The last member of the crew is Eck who is a robot assistant that was designed and built by Agnus.
Ahhhhh not too many spoilers already 😀

We are working on the pitch to go to publishers hopefully early in the new year so look out for some more posts and who knows, I might share one or two more little images too 🙂

Please check out Gabriel out online at all the following places and show him some love.

Thought I would share a little update on something I am working on with the brilliant artist Jennifer Epton of Akai Ito Studio.

The name probably sounds familiar because we are already working together on ‘Bulwark’ which I am super excited about and hopefully we will have the pitch package together for early 2018 so we can see which publishers are interested but this little project is not ‘Bulwark’.

Jennifer and I have been working on a six-page manga story to enter into Manga Jiman Competition (UK).

To explain the caliber of artist I am working with here I will say that she has been in the top ten for the last two years running.

Our story is called ‘Snoozdini’ and is about a magician who can’t sleep, he suffers from no confidence or belief.

He is visited by a spirit who tells him about three tasks he must complete that have been set by the elders of magic, then and only then will he be a better magician and also get to sleep.

The main character is a magician called Dmitri.

The sprite is called Elfred.

I don’t want to spoil too much of the story but once the competition ends and we are allowed to share the story I will put it all up here for you to read.

So lucky to be working with Jennifer on TWO projects, this manga and the other a manga-inspired comic.

Sorry about the distance between last post and this, I’ve been really busy working on a few projects and I am about to start sharing all the news with you now.

Please do expect regular updates from now on as I am back in the flow of things and finally getting my workflow in order.

Betty ‘The Slayer’ Mitchell.
I have spoken about this a little HEREbut that was before we even finished the pitch, but not only have we got a publisher but we are nearly finished issue #1 and should HOPEFULLY have it out to you before the end of the year.

The publisher we are going with is MARKOSIA, who are a British comic book publishing company who have had book published from the likes of Tony Lee (X-Men Unlimited, Spider-Man Family, Doctor Who), Fiona Staples (Saga, Archie, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents) and Ryan Stegman (Incredible Hulk, X-23, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, Inhuman) to name just a few so we are SUPER happy to be going with them.

Cover of Issue #1

Betty became a monster hunter after an attack on her by Spring Heeled Jack when she was a young girl. She has trained to make sure these incidents don’t happen again.

When she receives a letter to her London home stating he is back and reeking savage again, she has only one option… to seek revenge.

This is a 5 issue story that is written and lettered by me, has the art by Ka De Oki with colouring by Tiko Capdevilla.

The 5 issues will be available initially through digital download and then after the release of issue 5 they will be put together for print and sold in hardcopy as a trade paperback 😀

Cover of the Trade Paperback.

Betty Sneak Peek.

I am truly so happy to work with Ka and Tiko as both are phenomenal talent’s, just look here at some of their work.

Ka

Tiko

When issue #1 is available I will let you all know so you can buy and support us 😉

Here is a couple of titles that we will be with at Markosia, as you can see we are in great company.

Sorry it’s been so long between last post and this, updating more regularly is one of the things I have promised to do this year, along with getting into the habit of writing every day.

I already announced it on Facebook and Twitter but Ella has been picked up by Scout Comics.

I am writing and lettering Ella which is co-created by and has all the phenomenal art by the brilliant Ammar Al-Chalabi.

This is the cover for Ella and some other art by Ammar, I will share some work in progress pics soon and keep you updated in the coming weeks and months.

Ammar’s website is HERE, his twitter is HERE and his Facebook is HERE, give him a look, follow and like.

Scout Comics will publish and they already publish some PHENOMENAL titles like ‘Girrion’, ‘Solarman’ and ‘Elasticator’.

Publisher

Scout Comics & Entertainment develops, publishes and launches creator-owned comics. By consistently bringing exciting new, talented voices and their Intellectual Property to market, we have established ourselves as a pipeline to major studios and producers for some the of best new characters, ripe for development in TV, Film, Digital, Mobile, VR, and video games.

Agency

With deep knowledge and relationships in Hollywood (across Film, TV & Digital), our mission is to discover, develop, and support content creators and help build successful careers for them while translating their projects to different platforms and mediums.

History

Scout Comics evolved from the growing success of Ardden Entertainment. Renewed vigor, new amazing talent, exciting new stories and a new focus on characters who can become franchises in their own right, have set the company down the path of becoming one for the ages!!!